Pol defends Obama/Hitler tweet

An Ohio congressional candidate isn’t backing down from a controversial tweet in which she put President Barack Obama in the company of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. Rather, she’s glad to finally get some media attention.

“I am 100% against abortion and I am excited that this issue has come to the forefront of my campaign,” Marisha Agana wrote Monday in a Facebook post. “I hope all of you understand my position on abortion better now and why I put national leaders that believe in and support abortion into a special group of leaders who have either committed or supported genocide. Because of this and the position Mr. Barrack [sic] Hussain [sic] Obama has taken on abortion directly as well as the use of Obamacare to provide contraception and abortifacient drugs I feel it is proper and important to have included him on the list I tweeted about.”

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Agana was responding to the controversy over her tweeting on Sunday, “History has a way of repeating itself: Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse Tung and now Obama!!!” Replying to an angry Twitter user, she clarified on Monday morning: “@madest I am sorry if I made a poor choice of analogy but I was referring to his pro-abortion stance!”

Larry Nichols, Agana’s campaign manager, told POLITICO later on Monday that he’s “tickled that … we’re finally getting attention in a race that hasn’t been getting a lot of attention.”

Agana runs her own Twitter account and “is a plain-spoken woman” who “does not stutter, and she is not playing around,” he said. The campaign had planned to associate Obama with Hitler, Stalin and Zedong two weeks from now, but Agana posted the tweet early — nonetheless, she “stands by it” because she considers abortion to be genocide, he said.

“The difference is Hitler, Stalin, et cetera, they committed genocide,” Nichols said. “They did it directly. They walked up and killed millions of people. Now, Obama or any national leader that supports abortion is supporting genocide. They’re not pulling the trigger like Hitler, but they support genocide.”

Agana was born in the Philippines in 1960, was a “subject of the dictatorial Marcos regime,” and “suffered through the consequences of a government intent on ignoring its Constitutional limitations,” according to her campaign website.

A Reddit user flagged the tweet, and a Facebook user demanded an apology on Agana’s page, writing, “You need to immediately apologize for comparing the President of the United States to Hitler. This is not how a person running for office behaves in this country. When you make these types of comments, you diminish the suffering of the Jewish people.”